It will help their reputation. Not jurt it. It will only hurt their reputation will idiots
This is why it is important to write a letter of praise for doing the right thing. I wouldnt get to political, but thank them for looking after the students and thank them for considering the safety concerns of the student.
I have two questions that make me go hmmmmmm:
1) Is it just now all of a sudden that people are *finally* starting to get the Ayers thing?
2) And with all this “work” (& $$) that’s been done with disadvantaged children in the past few decades, WHY are there more of them? You’d think the seeds planted with their parents would take root from the “help” they got.
(UNL education professor David Moshman, who said Ayers should have been allowed to speak, said he feels the university caved under political pressure from Gov. Dave Heineman, Bruning and others. Moshman said the cancellation will hurt UNL’s academic reputation within higher education circles.)
That says it all. They’re not worried about the original invite damaging the reputation of the University!
They called it off not because it was wrong rather because it was going to affect donations. True academic courage.
UNL ping.
How about just "domestic terrorist"?
I missed the earlier ones, thanks.
1. The biggest risk was a financial risk.
2. I work with academics quite often. Most education professors I come in contact with are either irresponsible, have poor judgement, usually aren’t as intellegent as other academics, or if the have some modicum of intellegence it is overshadowed by insecurity, or a compulsion to make all things political. Some of them push the envelope and when they get called on it scream oppression of academic integrity/freedom (eventhough their actions are disingenous at best). They want money, but don’t want accountability. There is an odd sense of entitlement I see with very few other academics or business people. (I’ve met a women’s studies prof and a couple of really lazy social scientists that fall in this category)
The ones I come into contact with them do not (I haven’t figured out if this is a can’t or a won’t) understand fair market principles and good business practices. Because they don’t, they are frustrated that they have no value (ie can’t afford the house in the really GOOD zip code and have to drive a Toyota).
I think Moshman is full of it. I think he invited Ayers to get attention and when the outside world that pays his salary burst his bubble he squealed like the sheltered brat that he is.
Don’t worry, there will be plenty of opportunities to invite him to speak after he becomes 0bama’s Secretary of Education.
He will be too busy with his Homeland Security Director’s duties by then anyway.
Don’t kid yourself...This is Obama TEMPORARILY thowing him under the bus....just like Reverend Wrong...
What a ridiculous, self-important, pompous piece of garbage-writing that is.
May I ask whether, in those extremely enlightened educational circles, some have actually touched the robe of the Chosen One? Did they not then fall faint?
What was the lecture about.
How to make a bomb without blowing up your own building.